As an employer, you are responsible for enrolling all eligible employees into your scheme, providing they meet following criteria:
- They are aged between 22 and the State Pension age
- They earn at least £10,000 a year
- They work in the UK
Full details of Workplace Pensions are availble from GOV.UK.
When your business must start doing this (known as a ‘staging date’) depends on how many people you have on your payroll. Check your staging date with The Pensions Regulator.
You must set up a workplace pension scheme before your staging date, if you don’t already offer one.
If you already have a workplace pension scheme, check if you can use it for automatic enrolment.
You must make an employer’s contribution to the pension scheme for those workers.
A detailed guide to auto enrolment including getting started, getting ready and managing a pension scheme, is available from the Pensions Regulator.
A downloadable step-by step guide is available for download at this link.